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NCAA – National Collegiate Athletic Association - Products

Overview of the NCAA

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 University and College institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

History of the NCAA

The current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in 1973. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Subsequently the term "Division I- AAA" was added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all. In 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).

The NCAA's predecessor, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS), was established on April 31, 1906 to set rules for amateur sports in the United States. When then-president Theodore Roosevelt's own son, Ted, broke his collar bone playing football at Harvard, Roosevelt became aware of the growing number of serious injuries and deaths occurring in collegiate football. He brought the presidents of five major institutions, Army (West Point), Navy (Annapolis), Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to several meetings at the White House in October 1905 to discuss steps to make college athletics safer.[6] The IAAUS was created as an outcome of those meetings and became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer women's athletics. Instead an organization named the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) governed women's collegiate sports in the United States. By 1982, however, all divisions of the NCAA offered national championship events for women's athletics and most members of the AIAW joined the NCAA.

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